Job Description

About the role

WeaEUR(TM)re looking for a handsaEUR'on senior engineer to lead the design, automation, and operation of our cloud runtime platforms that power Marcus Deposits. YouaEUR(TM)ll set standards for infrastructureaEUR'asaEUR'code, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence; drive reliability programs (SLOs/error budgets, incident response, postaEUR'incident learning); and mentor engineers while partnering with application teams, Tech Risk, and vendor platforms to deliver resilient, secure, and costaEUR'efficient services at scale.

What you will do

Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda/ECS/EKS) using CloudFormation (preferred) and AWS CDK with modular, reusable patterns and guardrails. Own CI/CD for platform and apps (GitLab CI/Jenkins/GitHub Actions/AWS CodePipeline), enabling progressive delivery (blue/green, canary) and automated quality gates. Lead observability: define and evolve metrics, logs, traces, syntheticsaEUR"Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, CloudWatchaEUR"and drive actionable alerting, runbooks, and SLOs. Engineer for reliability: champion SRE practices, manage onaEUR'call rotations (e.g., PagerDuty), reduce MTTR with automation, and facilitate blameless postaEUR'incident reviews. Automate everything: eliminate toil with scripting, codify ops playbooks, and integrate policyaEUR'asaEUR'code for security and compliance. Strengthen security & resiliency: implement secrets management, network segmentation and firewall policies, and partner with Tech Risk on standards and control evidence. Optimize cost & performance: rightaEUR'size compute/storage, tune autoscaling, and collaborate with service owners to meet latency and availability targets. Mentor and influence: coach engineers, review designs, and drive adoption of best practices across Dev, Runtime, and vendor teams. Ecosystem integration (as relevant to teams): support Kafka-based eventing and MongoDB-backed services; improve service readiness for microservices at scale.

Basic qualifications

5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering with production AWS experience. Expert with CloudFormation (preferred) and AWS CDK; deep Linux fundamentals and shell scripting. CI/CD implementation and troubleshooting (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CodePipeline). Containers and orchestration (Docker, EKS/ECS); progressive delivery strategies. Expertise in TypeScript for automation. Strong networking and security expertise (VPC design, routing, security groups, firewalls, IAM policies). Experience architecting highly available, scalable, and secure AWS solutions, including multi-account and multi-region architectures where appropriate. Demonstrated leadership in incident response, postaEUR'incident improvement, and crossaEUR'team technical influence. Clear, concise communication with the ability to translate platform constraints into productaEUR'aligned decisions. Relevant AWS certification required (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect).

Preferred qualifications

GitOps (Argo CD/Flux) and service mesh fundamentals; APM/RUM (Dynatrace/New Relic). Operating Kafka and MongoDB in production; experience with microservices & distributed systems. Operating in regulated environments (financial services), with evidence practices for audits and control adoption. PagerDuty administration and onaEUR'call program improvements; cost governance/FinOps exposure. Proficiency in Python (or Bash/Go) for automation. Observability stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk/ELK, Datadog) and dataaEUR'driven alerting.

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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Birmingham
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Asset & Wealth Management